Winning Life by Overcoming Adversity 2024.
If there were no challenge, if there were no adversity, if there were no ups and downs, if there were no roller coaster ride in life, life would be one very flat and very long journey. Then again, we all know there is no such life. There may be a scale to how much adversity each of us face but there is no life that is immune to adversity.
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Winning Life by Overcoming Adversity
Adversity could come even if we are too young to understand what is happening or why it is happening. That was the case for my siblings and I when we suddenly lost our mother.
My mom was a single mother of 7 children. She was only 28 years old when she died. My mom suddenly became ill and passed away in a few days after being ill from what Doctors said was illness caused by food poisoning.
Winning Life By Overcoming Adversity.
we were too young to understand death. Mom’s first-born son, my brother Solomon was only 14. My sister was 10 and my other brother was eight. I was six at the time. I was the middle child, I had three older siblings and three younger siblings. My younger siblings were 4 and 2 years old and then the two-month-old baby, my little sister Martha.
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Winning Life By Overcoming Adversity.
Losing a mother is hard at any age but losing a mother at a young age was devastating! Because my mom was a single mother when she died, our brother Solomon, 14-year-old boy suddenly was burdened as a responsible person to care for the rest of us, his younger siblings. That was too much of a burden for a 14-year-old.
I don’t know if the devastation and shock of losing our mom so suddenly and becoming responsible to care for six younger siblings caused our brother some major health crisis, but Solomon was very ill and passed away two months following my mom’s sudden death.
Shortly after my brother’s funeral, our family unit totally broke apart. Myself and my siblings, we were taken separate ways to live with separate relatives in separate towns and villages. My siblings and I were dispersed among different relatives in different towns, I went to a countryside to live with my great grandpa.
Life with out a mother and father for a child is heart breaking and it is very difficult! To make the matter worst, we the surviving children were all separated permanently. It is bad enough that we lost our beloved mother and our older brother but now we also lost one another. As hard and as sad as the adversity we were faced with, growing up this was the life my siblings and I had to live.
For the next 20 years after my mom passed away and my brother died, my siblings and I faced our battles in our separate ways and fought our own separate wars and each one of us had to overcame our unbearable adversities and misfortunes.
As for me, my loving great grandpa took me in when my loving mother died, and he cared for me greatly. But he too passed away after taking care of me and raising me with love and kindness for 7 years. when I was 12, I lost another special person that was the world to me, my great-grandpa.
Winning Life By Overcoming Adversity.
At that point, living meant moving from relatives to relatives seeking their kind assistance for my daily bread, for shelter over my head and for some hand me down clothes. To receive all the help I can get, I had done housework such as cleaning, washing cloths by hand, taking grains to a mill, cooking for the whole family, babysitting, fetching water from a distance etc.… in each and every relative’s house all throughout my elementary school years, middle school and high school years, I was more like a maid they never had to pay.
For 12 years from the time my great grandpa died to the time I left my country at age 24 to 25, I moved around so much from one relative to the next; I don’t even know the exact number of relatives I lived with. My life during those years can be summed up as a living hell.
By the Grace of Almighty God/Allah I made it out of my misery! I moved away to new country, USA. I was given a new start in life in a new place where I don’t have relatives to push and pull me, to shove me from pillar to post, to be kind to me when they want to and be mean and cruel to me if they feel like it.
In my life, I had many unbearable adversities, misfortunes, circumstances, miseries, and personal traumas over and over and over…Thank God Almighty/Allah I achieved success way beyond my imagination! I transcended from misery to mastery, from trauma to Triumphs, from a victim to victorious regardless of the adversities I went through and the tragedies I faced as a child.
I am now in a mission to inspire, motivate, encourage, and empower others and to show them how far resilience, self-determination, persistence, Winning life by overcoming adversity and perseverance could take them.
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About The Author
Roman Akafate, Author, Motivational/Inspirational Speaker, Real Estate Agent and Internet Marketer
”The Ethiopian Orphan who Beat the Odds and Achieved Success In America”. I am a real life proof of overcoming adversities and achieving success, way beyond human imagination. I am now in a quest to help people overcome their adversities and achieve success. Sign up to receive insights, tips, strategies, and helpful directions and guides I have for you… by visiting my website at www.akafatetube.com
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